Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he suggested to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that a trilateral meeting be held with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to the TRT TV channel, TASS reports.
Intelligence officials as well as defense and foreign ministers from Turkey, Syria and Russia should hold talks to prepare the ground for a meeting between the three countries’ leaders, he added. "I proposed this to Mr. Putin. He also viewed it positively. We will start a series of negotiations," Erdogan told reporters on his way to Turkey from Turkmenistan where on Wednesday he participated in a meeting between the leaders of Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.